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Time/Location

Time : 12-1pm EST, 8/10/06

Room : 32-262 (Stata center)

Agenda

task check from last meeting?

Have the retreat -- nice work with that ;)

Put the video (or picture link to video) on the Main Page, but make sure video works with IE. (John Cumbers) NOT DONE - I couldn't do this nicely, so gave up and just left the link. Next video I'll try again or ask for Jenny's help with nice looking graphics.

I apologize for not doing any work on the highlights this month. I will put together a plan for future highlights, recruit some more help, write some new highlights and make sure it keeps going this time. The voting thing should help highlight cool stuff. --Johncumbers 00:10, 10 August 2006 (EDT)

Passive Recruiting: Should we add a small "Join OWW" icon to every OWW page (at the bottom, sort of like the mediawiki logo? Endy 10:42, 9 August 2006 (EDT)

Lucks 11:16, 10 August 2006 (EDT): If we go through with the reddit proposal, we can also ask them to put up a similar 'add' to join OWW.

New Topics

e currently do not have a policy for posting copyrighted PDFs. Place notices on people's pages for taking down PDFs.

Reshma 14:44, 10 August 2006 (EDT): Added a one line policy to OpenWetWare:Copyrights giving people an email to contact about copyright violations.

Data Management

Hard time tracking users who may vandalize OWW.

Create invitations for user accounts on OWW. We should think about making OWW Beta to attract new users. Empowers users to feel like they own a part of OWW.

Infrastructure

Last week, site went down for 14 hrs.

Ilya has been looking into pro-hosting options.

Keeping reliability is goal #1. The companies that do provide service will lease server to center and have varying maintainence services. Prices range from $400-$800/mo in fees; provides 100% availability, backups, etc.

Sri met with ibiblio, and would be happy to host OWW. We may be able to get an additional server for free. May be more favorable to look into this company.

Austin suggests that we should see if MIT can provide this.

Wikimania

Ilya update: Semantic MediaWiki Extension (allows tags to links). See this to see an example of data mining. Plans to incorporate this into OWW. This will help organize information to eventually integrate with categories to have drop-down box.

WiktionaryZ - looking at dictionaries in different languages. Meanings are linked together, not words. Structured data in the wiki. Implementation of data project - benefits of wiki with structured data.

Austin update: Liquid threads - every post on talk page is its own page, threaded and archived. Embedding streaming video into pages - rather than using google video, have OWW stream automatically. OpenID - universal ID (any URL owned) can be used across all projects.

Highlights

John will recruit more members to have more highlights

Drew's idea about Join OWW on bottom of every page.

Yes!

Publishing - any interactions would be non-exclusive.

Reddit.com

Way of ranking relevance of pages on OWW.

Archive.reddit to post information and have comments; builds relevancy.

Short-term, be able to reward people for posting information. (Better Recent Changes), good communication channel

Long-term, could be possible publishing mechanism.

Technical stuff: need to have Reddit accounts.

Start Reddit Trial?

Nature

Say that we need $250,000, give them access to SC, account, etc. and see where it goes from there without making formal offer. Need 3/yr time-scale.